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Another word for pitiless

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Adjective

  1. Having or showing no mercy

    See also:

    kind

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Another word for pitiless

Modifier
  1. See also:

    ruthless

    remorseless

    indifferent

    cruel

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • Sion is urged to cry to the Lord in protest against His pitiless work (verses 18-22).

  • Cavallotti then began against him a pitiless campaign of defamation.

  • That his brother retained the throne while James lost it is an ironical demonstration that a more pitiless fate awaits the ruler whose faults are of the intellect, than one whose faults are of the heart.

  • On the 18th of December 1573 Alva, who to the end had persisted in his policy of pitiless severity, left Brussels, carrying with him the curses of the people over whom he had tyrannized for six terrible years of misery and oppression.

  • He led in person several armies into Italy, and proved as severe and pitiless towards his enemies as he was gentle and clement towards his subjects.

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